Example sentences of "[adv] make [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could only make for bad blood between the Li clan and himself and shatter the age-old ties between their families . |
| 2 | But statistics do not necessarily make for good intelligence . |
| 3 | Good science does not necessarily make for good philosophy . |
| 4 | THERE was an article in The Times the other day which said that good spelling did not necessarily make for good writing . |
| 5 | The micro-political dimension of budgeting is based on the view that budgetary decisions are not necessarily made on rational — economic grounds but that the deciding factors may be other influences such as the power base of individuals or groups and their value systems . |
| 6 | Set out with freshly landscaped lawns and flowerbeds , the factory was almost entirely made of one-way glass : you could see out from inside but not in from outside . |
| 7 | Consider this passage about a sow : ‘ her combination of gross whiskery nakedness and riotous carnality is seized by the mythic imagination as a sort of uterus on the loose — upholstered with breasts , not so much many-breasted as a mobile tub entirely made of female sexual parts , a woman-sized , multiple udder of trotters . |
| 8 | The minority , in particular the 1540s , also produced a concentration of the more ‘ normal ’ bonds by the magnates , hitherto made for local purposes but now reflecting the need for support in a major political crisis . |
| 9 | There are four products in the range , all made with nourishing Alpine herbs . |
| 10 | As the paving is all made from broken paving slabs and , therefore , all the same thickness , you simply lay it on the levelled sand bed . |
| 11 | It is one of the old dishes especially made for potted char , the freshwater fish once a celebrated delicacy of the Cumberland lake district . |
| 12 | ST IVEL has come up with the first fresh yoghurt range especially made for young appetites . |
| 13 | Sun E45 from Crookes Healthcare is a new range of sunscreen lotions especially made for sensitive skins . |
| 14 | ‘ Dishonestly ’ generally means without a claim of right made in good faith . |
| 15 | Cooking pots were mostly made of fired clay . |
| 16 | The various fittings associated with the handle rarely survive as they were presumably made from organic materials . |
| 17 | I 'm sorry , if I could just make on other point . |
| 18 | Tools , after all , extend the very possibility of humanity as productive agent , and thus make for obvious analogies with biological function . |
| 19 | Each piece is individually made in solid gold and set with the world 's finest alternative to diamonds . |
| 20 | Because the clinical signs appear during the prepatent period faecal egg counts are of little value in diagnosis which is best made on grazing history , clinical signs , and is possible , a post-mortem examination . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , the contrast is best made for introductory purposes by thinking about the middle of the range , where individuals take the stage in a social capacity , as , for instance , Prime Minister or Secretary of State . |
| 22 | He believes everyone has ideas worthy of attention and that earth-saving decisions are best made at local level . |
| 23 | Smaller eggs are best made from solid chocolate . |
| 24 | Largely unprotected and little understood , these populations of small whales need immediate investigation and protection if we are n't to repeat the dreadful and potentially catastrophic mistakes we 've already made with large whales . |
| 25 | It supposes that this practice will serve the community better-bring it closer to what really is a fair and just and happy society — than any alternative program that demands consistency with decisions already made by other judges or by the legislature . |
| 26 | Of course , conditional offers from universities and colleges are generally made on predicted results . |
| 27 | In actual fact ‘ it was to find its full interpretation in a new concept of matter no longer made of immutable atoms but by relatively impermanent associations of a few fundamental particles , themselves liable to change and transformation ’ . |
| 28 | Like job production , batches are normally made to individual customer requirements , but sometimes batches are produced in anticipation of orders . |
| 29 | Microwave bakeware is normally made of durable plastic and needs no greasing before use . |
| 30 | Television and radio commercials are normally made by outside production companies and sound studios under the supervision of the agency creative team and agency TV department . |